Step 1: Materials

For your journey, you shall need to acquire:

1. An Altoid tin - I found mine in my drawer, you could do that too, or you could just check at the local Wal-Mart. They usually have some.2. Adhesive sandpaper - we had some with the orbital sander; you should be able to pick some up at Home Depot or Lowe's3. Scissors4. A ruler

Step 2: Assembly

This is all pretty simple, so we can squeeze everything into one step.

1. Measure your Altoid tin. Mine was about 3-3/4 in. by 2-1/4 in. (that's 9.5 cm by 6 cm for all you foreign folk). Use these measurements to mark your sandpaper accordingly. Alternatively, you can trace the Altoid tin onto your sandpaper. However, I chose not to do this because this would create a sort of "overhang" of sandpaper from the tin.

2. Cut your sandpaper along the lines you drew.

3. Slap the sandpaper onto the tin.

4. Put extra sandpaper into your tin. If you want, you can cut some more sandpaper templates so you can just put them on your tin without having to cut them out again.

5. Sand stuff. I used mine on [http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Vintage-Jeans...-Coffee-Style/ a pair of jeans].

TimsProjects, to the contrary, the saltoid is brilliant. It's the perfect size for hands, even tiny feminine hands like mine. The cover has an overhang on all sides which keep the fingers and thumbs from sliding off as easily. It's simplicity and the availability of altoids tins is an added bonus.

Hi just a notwe to officeblueprint i did this and it works pretty good but the motor has to have a high voltage as when you push it down really hard it just stops But mine has a dc converter 12v from the mains

It's a nice idea, especially the possibility of storing extra sandpaper in the tin, but I'm not convinced about the pocketability of the tin - I'd sand my knuckles and scuff all the paint off my multitool

Well, seeing as how the sand paper is "re-adhesivable", you could unattach the sandpaper, put it in the tin, and reattach it when you need it. But I guess this would decrease the longevity of the adhesive... *sigh*

Ah, well. Thanks for the critique. I must admit that the idea came suddenly, and the original idea was changed only ONCE. In all truth, I threw this together quite quickly, I really wanted to get something into the contest... *blah blah blah*

Oh, and you could probably cut a piece of sandpaper a few inches longer than the tin, then, holding the tin over the sandpaper (gritty side down), fold the edges back into the tin, and then shut the top of the tin. That way, the paper would be held by the tin's top...